On the Formulation of Quantum Mechanics associated with Classical Pictures
Takehiko Takabayasi
By re-expressing the generalized Schrodinger equation in its coordinate representation in terms of amplitude and phase of the state vector, a quantum-mechanical change of a system can be made to correspond to an ensemble of classical motions of the system to which is added some internal potential. This ensemble may be taken as the statistical. This enables an alternative formulation of quantum mechanics with which is associated that classical picture. Such a formulation leads, however, if developed straightforwardly according to the picture, to a theoretical scheme quite different from that of ordinary quantum mechanics concerning the problems other than the equation of motion. Furthermore, this formulation is not applicable to Fermions when spin, or exclusion principle is taken into account. Bohm's recent renewed form of the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics referring to this formulation is criticized in several points. On this formulation we can construct a singular ensemble which is shown to correspond to the transformation kernel of the wave function to infinitesimally later instant, and thus a connection between this formulation and that of Feynman's is taken out. Hydrodynamical picture formally equivalent to the statistical picture in one-body problems is also considered, and from such analogy certain formal generalization of Schrodinger equation is suggested.
Progress of Theoretical Physics•Aug 1, 1952•340 citations